netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: bridge: enfore alignment for ethernet address

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Message-Id: <20200625.123810.272736267545607911.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:38:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     t.martitz@....de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, kuba@...nel.org, nbd@....name,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: bridge: enfore alignment for ethernet address

From: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@....de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:03 +0200

> The eth_addr member is passed to ether_addr functions that require
> 2-byte alignment, therefore the member must be properly aligned
> to avoid unaligned accesses.
> 
> The problem is in place since the initial merge of multicast to unicast:
> commit 6db6f0eae6052b70885562e1733896647ec1d807 bridge: multicast to unicast
> 
> Fixes: 6db6f0eae605 ("bridge: multicast to unicast")
> Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@....de>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

Please do not explicitly CC: stable for networking changes, I take care
of those by hand.

Thank you.